While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by...
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25 May 2011
The White House has put out a statement expressing its disapproval of various bits of H.R.1540, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Here's the most interesting, if not the most adamant, objection:
"Detainee...
"Detainee...
21 May 2011
How did this country survive before it found formidable enemies around which the government could mobilize hatred and fear?
I don’t remember the 1930s when poverty, capitalism, godlessness, fascism, communism, Jews and alcohol...
I don’t remember the 1930s when poverty, capitalism, godlessness, fascism, communism, Jews and alcohol...
19 May 2011
When President Obama, summing up the killing of Osama bin Laden, said, “Justice has been done,” the problem wasn’t simply that he misspoke — justice, after all, can only emerge at the end of an impartial judicial proceeding — but that, in...
15 May 2011
U.S. newspapers sometimes print what they call the total death count from one or more of our wars, and all the dead who are listed are Americans. They aren't all the Americans. They don't include contractors or suicides or various other...
10 May 2011
The New York Times published an op-ed on May 7th by a professor here in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden is actually a good thing, because in so celebrating we are building solidarity with those...
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